Vol. 22 No. 2 (2026): Fanning the Flame: Expanding Hope in Language and Literacy Education

Editor's Introduction

Research Articles:

Censorship, Book Bans, and Reparative Literacy: Cultivating Hope Amidst Educational Crisis

By: Gamze Ar

Celebrating What Matters: Engaging Joyous Literacies as Resistance at an Urban High School

By: Aimee Hendrix-Soto 

Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies: Academic Achievement, Cultural Competence, and Critical Consciousness for the Classroom and Beyond

By: Christy L. Donovan

A Typology of Feedback in Volunteer-Led Online Reading for Pre-Adolescent Students Experiencing Difficulty: Supporting Competence, Autonomy, Relatedness and Beyond

By: Zara Hallett, Taylor Richardson-Marlton, Ella Silvester, Frances Hoyte & Beryl Exley

FEATURE: REFLECTIONS IN PRACTICE

Walking in Finland: Observations on Literacy, Pedagogy, and Culture

By: T. Hunter Stickland and Jeremy Lucian Daniel Watts

FEATURE: BLOSSOMING ON ARTS-BASED EXPLORATION

Singing Into Voice: Expressive Critical Multilingual Literacies with Emergent Bilinguals

By: Leila Flores Dueñas and Karol Ibarra Zetter